WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.600 Continuing with that, in terms of the revelation personified as by Jesus Christ, 00:14.900 --> 00:21.120 how can the U.S. become more devout in its following and have more faith? 00:21.120 --> 00:25.840 What efforts can we do to lead the American youth towards faith? 00:26.540 --> 00:33.620 And what do you think is the responsibility of both institutions and individuals in that regard? 00:35.880 --> 00:40.420 Well, that's a great question, and people are trying to figure out the best way to answer that question. 00:40.940 --> 00:44.120 I think that in the past, we've done better. 00:44.120 --> 00:49.580 And I think we've done better because we've educated people in the churches, 00:50.000 --> 00:52.960 at the level of the youth, all the way up through adulthood, 00:52.960 --> 00:57.520 about the things that we believe and the best reasons for believing them. 00:57.860 --> 01:03.620 I think where we've gotten into trouble is when we've become more obsessed, you might say, 01:04.040 --> 01:07.400 with trends in the culture and fitting in 01:08.620 --> 01:14.520 and maybe blending in in such a way that we don't live distinctive lives anymore. 01:15.180 --> 01:20.800 We really need to come back to the basic things that we believe and the best reasons to believe them. 01:20.800 --> 01:26.400 And I think that people want to know what those things are, but we don't give them credit for it. 01:26.860 --> 01:33.500 So I think the first thing we do is we just say more, more clearly, what it is that we think is true 01:33.500 --> 01:38.260 and then give them, as I keep saying now, the best reasons to believe those things. 01:38.380 --> 01:39.560 People are responsive to that. 01:39.700 --> 01:41.440 People care about reasons to believe. 01:41.880 --> 01:43.040 They care about evidence. 01:43.420 --> 01:45.580 And that's because of the way we're wired as human beings. 01:45.580 --> 01:49.700 I tell my students two things about every human person. 01:50.060 --> 01:54.540 Every normal human person, cognitively speaking, is truth-interested. 01:54.880 --> 01:55.680 We can't help it. 01:56.020 --> 01:57.240 We want to know what's true. 01:57.980 --> 02:00.760 Now, it's, you know, truth's not always convenient. 02:00.980 --> 02:04.820 Maybe we find out certain things are true and we wish they weren't. 02:05.300 --> 02:09.100 And so we might suppress the truth when we discover what it is. 02:09.200 --> 02:13.280 But we are fundamentally oriented to discover truth, right? 02:13.840 --> 02:14.560 That's one thing. 02:14.560 --> 02:18.480 The second is we are exquisitely evidence-sensitive. 02:19.460 --> 02:20.560 We respond to evidence. 02:20.700 --> 02:21.980 We do it even without thinking. 02:22.840 --> 02:25.240 And then there's evidence that you do have to think about. 02:25.640 --> 02:26.180 You deliberate. 02:26.500 --> 02:27.060 You reason. 02:27.240 --> 02:28.440 You argue with each other. 02:28.780 --> 02:32.660 And you come to conclusions as a result of reflection. 02:33.300 --> 02:36.940 But much of the evidence we have, we just respond spontaneously to it. 02:37.240 --> 02:38.520 It's also how we're made. 02:38.960 --> 02:41.540 So we're truth-interested and we're evidence-sensitive. 02:41.540 --> 02:45.640 And evidence is what puts us in touch with what is true. 02:45.640 --> 02:54.040 So I think that we can count on that when we're talking to people, whether they're older people, middle-aged people, younger adults, or youth. 02:54.400 --> 02:59.360 We're all responsive to evidence in the interest of acquiring true belief. 02:59.360 --> 03:10.920 We just need to take that seriously and begin, again, to present that, the arguments, the evidence, and the reasons to believe the things we do. 03:10.920 --> 03:13.420 I think that's where we start, just making it clear.